Word Police

I noticed that Collins have decided to make words redundant

Without asking you and me

And I am somewhat surprised by their inconsistency

For it appears that aerodrome is to be no more

As now they are seen to be what airports are for

But imagine a propeller powered passenger plane

Descending from the skies carrying fifties filmstars

And adoring waiting fans sighs

And then it will become apparent what all of us have known- for such a flight,

Only an aerodrome is home.

And the charabanc too is being consigned to the dustbin

As if such simple pleasures didn’t exist or had never been.

Even dustbins themselves are on the way out

For bins are no longer to put rubbish in and keep places clean

Instead they are multi - purpose receptacles for re-cy-cling

The joys of a trip an outing a journey with you and us

Can  never be adequately described by the humble term  “ bus”

So why expunge such glorious, older terms, and phrases

Whose perfunctory exile is determined on the flimsiest of cases

And the meaning of modern words is also being lost

Their original meanings tossed – aside.

Consider the word shopping it’s a little bit highfalutin

When popular culture has downgraded it and calls it simply looting

And how about “room”?

 For it simply is no more

The area that sits above the floor

Is now called a space

No longer defined by drawing room or sitting room or bed.

Space, a word that for me is simply not so cool

Whatever happened to the trusty vestibule

So what will go next? Almost certainly the book

Rectangular and weighty with a satisfying look

Which when dropped in the bath when reading,

Immersed and dripping wet, can have its dripping paper

Saved by a radiator,

Which when spread across the top, open and arched

Can be dried and resuscitated, pleasingly parched

- Unlike a kindle

 A “Badger” too will be no more, soon to be forgot

Blasted to oblivion by farmers with buckshot

Like “fish” who used to swim in the sea, caught by nets that sagged

That are doomed very soon to catch only plastic bags

But all that we need to do to save words form half remembered confusion

Is to nurture them ,to cherish them, but most of all to use them